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Comment Re:Age and quality. (Score 1) 443

by goon (#30409194) Attached to: Slashdot Turns 100,000

"... What's amazing to me isn't that /. has carried on this long, but rather that the comment quality on here hasn't gone the way of most social new sites. ..."

I am surprised /. has survived. The place pretty much as it was back when it started in '97.

This is my first post for a couple of years. But there was a time when I lived here. I remember when /. was sold & CmdrTaco said all he wanted to do was run it I'm sure I for one didn't believe he'd still be at it now. The sig/noise is still bad if you trawl below the +2 level. But at +5 it's readable. I think the combination of moderation, ability to filter comments (text, best comments at top), culture and relationships have helped shape the site into something *still* readable. HackerNews [0], where I sort of trawl now exhibits all of the same sorts of growing pains /. had to go through.

[0] HN is to Startups what /. is (was) to Linux.

Comment Yahoo wrong, but corrected (Score 1) 254

by goon (#17878446) Attached to: Flickr To Abandon Early Adopters
> Not sure if Yahoo was in the wrong here

Yes, because the images they extracted from the wii flickr feed was not filtered for images tagged with CC licenses restricting commercial use. It's been corrected without fuss but is stirring up the natives a bit
Movies

Journal Journal: Nerds hacking NerdTV #42

Journal by goon

On bootload: Nerds hacking NerdTV #42

`... Journal #42, where we stuff NerdTV from
MPEG-4 downloads onto DVD so we can
watch it on TV instead of the computer.
Where writing Code & selling code goes
in fits and starts. ...`

NerdTV on DVD

Editorial

Journal Journal: /. gone 2 seed #37

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slashdot gone to seed #37

Journal #37
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Perl

Journal Journal: Quick note on RSS #30

Journal by goon

Summary
Journal #30, Mucking around with RSS &
Perl this week. Fine tuning regular
expressions. Listening to Dave Winer on
ITConversations about RSS. Reading
about RSS on JOS. RSS stands for
`Really Simple Syndication` and
simplicity is its focus.[0]

Really Simple Syndication
In a Joel on Software forum, I answered a query by Rudolf F. Vanek on RSS Feed creation. [1]
User Journal

Journal Journal: More things todo #20

Journal by goon

Summary
Things todo list, pod2blog & other
stuff. List things completed. Some
reading. Spammed by phone.

Things to do
Businesses

Journal Journal: MelbourneIT Lapse ... one of many

Journal by goon
Slashdot story on MelbourneIT Lapse needs a repsonse.
  • '... With universities forced increasingly to find creative new ways of fundraising, Melbourne Uni took an unprecedented step. It set up a new company, Melbourne IT, to run the .com.au names operation and, in December 1999, floated the body on the stock market. The stock rocketed far above the listing price. ...
Programming

Journal Journal: chandler: Is it dead in the water?

Journal by goon

The promise
I remember when Chandler was first mooted. Finally an open souce project that has a vision of how to store and communicate small bits of information. Traditionally these types of applications have been lumped together with *ugly* (but accurate) acronymn, PIM.

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